Talk shows through the ages

[Dan Strassberg]

Aah, but the issue was who did the first TWO-WAY telephone talk show and
where. Almost two decades later, Feller was still doing shows in which he
paraphrased and repeated the caller's words over the air. I could be wrong,
but I don't believe he EVER did TWO-WAY telephone talk--where the listeners
could hear the callers as well as the host, almost live, or live if you
don't count the seven-second (or so) delay.

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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:45 AM
Subject: Talk shows through the ages


I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sherm Feller.  In 1981 I interviewed him
in conjunction with WGIR Manchester's 40th anniversary (he helped put WMUR
Radio on the air in the fall of 1941).

Sherm said he was hired by WEEI Boston the day after Pearl Harbor was
attacked (12/7/41), "where I started the first talk show in America at
midnight."  He didn't say specifically when he began the all-night talk
show.

Ed Brouder
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